Delhi man stops to buy food for mother on highway and is run over by speeding bus in Mohali

Mohali: A man who stopped to buy food for himself and his mother was run over by a speeding truck near Kurali bypass on Monday. The deceased, Praveen, 34, was from Delhi. Him, together with his mother

Mohali: A man, who stopped to buy food for himself and his mother, was run over by a speeding truck near the Kurali bypass on Monday. The deceased, Praveen, 34, was from Delhi. He was traveling with his mother, Rekha Devi, 55, to her homeland in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, when the accident occurred.

According to a report in HT, they visited their Hamirpur as they had bought a house there. On the way, they bowed at a dhaba near the Kurli bypass and Parveen went to buy food while his mother stayed in the car.

When he didn’t return for long, she went looking for him and the dhabha staff told her that Praveen had come to bring some change to pay for the food. As she continued to search for him, she was shocked to find him injured on the road after being hit by an unknown truck. When she saw him injured, she lost consciousness. She and her son were rushed to the local civil hospital by onlookers. But Praveen could not survive.

On Devi’s complaint, the police booked the unidentified truck driver under sections 279 (rash driving) and 304-A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

In a similar incident, a woman and her daughter were killed on Monday after an unknown vehicle rammed into their scooter near Chaklan village. Kurali residents Kulveer Kaur (35) and her mother Kamaljit Kaur (60) went to pray at a gurdwara in Solkhian village. Police suspect that a tipper truck was involved in the accident. A case was registered under Sections 304 A and 279 of the IPC.